Question : Help converting date format and pivot charting

I have a spread of problem reports.  Simple one, and for my purposes I would like to trend three fieldsand also against each other.

first is the time of day.  My data set is this format 200902011859  (yyyymmddhhmm, .  I really dont care about the date, just the time of day the incident occured.

second is a mailbox store

third is an IP address

Is this simple? I just figure out my mailbox store, and subnet into pivot tables/charts...but how can I use this date format to trend incidents occuring over a period of time, like daily?  I want to learn when during my day incidents are most often reported?

Answer : Help converting date format and pivot charting

To take this any further you will have to upload a sample excel file to show where you experience the problems you're having. This would also help to explain what you are trying to do. I cannot see any problems in the file I created from your text file. This file was just to explain the extraction and conversion from the date/time text string to an Excel time.

You should be able to see the formula =TIME(MID(A2,9,2),RIGHT(A2,2),0) in column B in the file I uploaded. It was entered in B2 and copied down to B41.

Curt